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EDWARD EVERETT 



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REV. JOHN E. TODD, 

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BOSTON: 
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Boston, January 22, 1865. 
Rev. John E, Todd. 

Dear Sir, — After listening to your just tribute to the memory of 
Edward Everett in your discourse of this morning, a desire has been 
expressed by many of your friends, that it should be put into a per- 
manent form. Will you favor your people with a copy for publication? 
In behalf of the Central Congregational Society, 

HENRY EDWARDS, 

Chairman of Standing Conunittee. 



Boston, January 23, 1865. 
Henrt Edwards, Esq., Chairman of Cotnmittee of the Central Congregational 
Society. 

My dear Sir, — The very complimentary request which you have 
communicated to me has taken me quite by surprise. I can hardly 
feel that the sermon of which you speak is worthy of a place among 
the tributes to the memory of our distinguished fellow-citizen which 
will be called forth ; but I defer to your judgment and the wishes 
of our friends. 

Very truly yours, 

JOHN E, TODD. 



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SERMON. 



"Death is come uj) into our windoivs, and is entered 
into our palaces." 



tTereniiaJi ix. 21'. 



The palaces of a free people are the homes of those who, 
simply by the force of princely miuds, have ruled the 
opinions and passions of their countrymen. There is noth- 
ing about them to arrest the eye of the traveller; they 
lend no magnificence to the city, no stateliness to the 
landscape ; they are no splendid architectural triumphs, 
thronged by visitors wondering at mosaic pavements, and 
inlaid floors, and frescoed ceilings, and columns of porphyry, 
and walls hung with works of great masters, and treasuries 
of jewels, and gilded thrones ; they are humble and modest 
dwellings, hiding among the fertile plantations of Ashland, 
dimpling the smile of the Potomac, nestling among the 
farms of Marshfield, lost in the narrow and crowded streets 
of Boston ; their importance is derived from their mighty 
occupants, and docs not long survive them; when these 
are gone, they soon fall, like -the home of Franklin, before 
the granite tread of business, or, like the home of Hancock, 
before the progress of private wealth; for an intelligent 
people reverences men rather than things; and a young 
people is too rich in the possessions of the present and the 



hopes of the future, to cherish with tenderness the relics 
of the past. 

Into another of these our palaces, suddenly, like a thief 
in the night, a messenger of death has entered, summoning 
from transactions in an earthly court to the bar of a juster 
and more august tribunal the greatest of living Americans. 

We are still too near the life which has just ended, to be 
able to see it in its true and full proportions ; when we 
shall have left the building a little behind us, Ave shall look 
back upon it with a niore appreciative survey. Its minuter 
features are still too generally covered with the veils of 
secrecy and confidence under which they were wrought, to 
permit us to count and study them ; we shall hereafter 
see many a point which is now concealed, coming out into 
ffolden lio;ht. Yet before the current of time bears us 
farther away from the structure in whose shadow we have 
been living, it is fitting that we should repeatedly turn, to 
send backward to it fond, lingering looks, and sorrowful 
farewells. 

The leading incidents in the life of Mr. Everett have 
been too public and too often chronicled, to leave any ne- 
cessity for more than a hasty review. 

He was the younger son of a Unitarian minister, and was 
born in Dorchester April 11th, 1794. The times in which 
he was cradled produced a race of intellectual giants. 
There seems to l)e an established law of nature, according to 
which great men come, like meteors, in showers, with only 
here and there a stra£>'gler between. At the close of the 
last century, there was a brilliant coterie in Irekmd, such 
as has not yet been reproduced ; there were Burke, Cur- 
ran, Grattan, Plunket, Toler, and a host of lesser stars, 
each of which "w^ould have been of the first magnitude in a 



darker firmament. The same age witnessed in England 
the statesmanship of Pitt, the eloquence of Fox, the mil- 
itary genius of Wellington, the literary triumphs of Scott 
and Byron and Shelley, the sarcasm of Junius, the learn- 
ins of Johnson and Gibbon and Hume, the heroism of Nel- 
son, the decisions of Mansfield, and the flash of many an 
other hardly inferior light. A little later a similar display 
of intellect illuminated this country. Mr. Everett belonged 
to the age when Jackson and Scott and Harrison rendered 
their country's arms illustrious ; when Calhoun shook the 
republic with his erratic intellect; when Webster shed a 
glory successivel}^ upon the bar, the senate, and the cab- 
inet, and electrified the country with his speeches and de- 
spatches ; when Clay and Benton stood on the floor of 
Congress ; when Choate led juries captive at the wheels 
of his fiery eloquence ; when Story adorned the platform, 
the bench, and the lecture-room ; when IMason and Chan- 
ning graced the pulpit, and Beecher and Parker thundered 
from it ; when Prescott clothed history in the beauty of 
romance, and Irving tilled with charm the walks of liter- 
ature. Of this generation of mighties the last is now gone. 
Yet rather than recognize in this their departure symptoms 
of degeneration and decay among us, we may believe that 
periods of gi-eat commotion and excitement are the winds 
which stir the mysterious deeps of human being ; and that 
therefore the tumultuous experience through which we are 
now passing is destined to be the beginning of the roll of 
another wave of genius, which shall break in its riches upon 
another generation. 

At the very early age of thirteen, Mr. Everett was sent 
to Harvard College, where, after the usual course, he grad- 
uated with the highest honors. The next two years were 



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spent in the Divinity School in Cambridge, in preparation 
for the work of the ministry. No sooner were his studies 
completed than he received an invitation to settle with the 
Brattle Street Church of this city. It is an evidence of his 
distinguished ability, that at the age of nineteen he was 
thought worthy to be the successor of a preacher of such 
power and eloquence as the noted Buckminster. The ex- 
pectations which he had excited were not disappointed. He 
began to exhibit in the pulpit that persuasive oratory which 
constituted through life his greatest charm and power. The 
most intellectual men of the day listened to him with de- 
light and in tears. But it was not as a preacher that he 
was to rise to greatness. 

After two years spent in the ministry, he accepted an 
appointment to the professorship of Greek in Harvard Col- 
lege, with the understanding that he should be allowed to 
spend some time in Europe in preparation. It was during 
this absence of nearly four years that he laid the founda- 
tions of that extensive and intimate acquaintance with em- 
inent foreigners which he enjoyed through life, and through 
which his subsequent efforts secured an immediate and 
permanent hold upon the consideration of leading men in 
all lands. 

On his return to this country in 1819, he entered upon 
the duties of his office. His perfect acquaintance with the 
Greek language, and his abilities as a lecturer, raised him 
at once to eminence as a scholar. But it was not in the 
class-room that he was to earn immortality. 

In the course of the following year he assumed the 
editorship of the "North American," a review which had 
at that time but a limited reputation. This was the field 
in which his peculiar genius first began to find room to 



expatiate ; for althouo-h it is true that his gifts were varied, 
and his successes manifold, it is undoubtedly upon his 
efforts as an essayist and orator that his fame will most 
securely and permanently rest. In more than a hundred 
articles, he displayed a variety and profundity of learning, 
a mastery of language, and a delicacy and earnestness of 
sentiment, which won the admiration of the reading world. 

In the fourth 3'ear of his labors as a professor, he deliv- 
ered the first of that series of orations and speeches with 
which his name is especially associated. In this year, also, 
'he left the chair of the professor for a seat in the National 
House of Representatives. The ten years which he spent 
there were years of hard labor, — years, also, of repeated 
successful eflbrts. The hall that was accustomed to the 
thunders of Webster, and the eloquence of Clay and Cal- 
houn, listened, also, in silence and with rapture, to the 
graceful and glowing periods of Everett. The greatest 
sjjeakers of the day heard him with delight, and unqualified 
praise. 

In 1835, and each of the three succeeding years, he was 
called by the people of this commonwealth to be their chief 
magistrate. It was his lot to govern at a time when there 
was little honor to be won by administrative ability ; but 
he was already a man to confer more honor upon such an 
office than can be gained from it in even the most critical 
emergencies. Yet Mr. Everett was never a thoroughly 
popular man, especially as a politician. He was too just, 
too true, too brave. 

Soon after his retirement from the chair, he made a tour 
through Europe for health and recreation. It was during 
his absence that Webster, newly-appointed Secretary of 
State, secured his services as minister to the Court of 



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St. James. For four years, and through as many changes 
of the home government, he won respect for his country, 
even at that fastidious court, and through a period of 
excitement, in which the passions of the two nations were 
on the jpoint of bursting into the flames of war. Never has 
the republic been more nobly represented. 

On his return to this country in 1845, he was elected 
President of Harvard College, the institution of which he 
had been, as a pupil and as a professor, the pride. It 
is no disparagement to him to allow that this, of all the 
positions which he filled, was the one in which he was least 
successful. The reason for it was honorable to him. His 
mind, high-toned by nature, refined by culture, long accus- 
tomed to the courtliness of the finest society in the world, 
and the dignity of diplomatic circles, could not adapt itself 
to the management of young men in that half-fledged state, 
— when they have ceased to be boys, and have not yet 
learned to be gentlemen. 

In 1852, he was appointed Secretary of State by Presi- 
dent Fillmore, in place of the lamented Webster. No 
ordinary man, following in the tracks of such a predecessor, 
and especially in the short time that remained to the Fill- 
more administration, could have won for himself any envi- 
able distinction ; but Mr. Everett succeeded in writing a 
letter on the Tripartite Treaty, which drew upon him the 
admiring gratitude of his countrymen, and the thoughtful 
attention of the civilized world. 

The next year, he was chosen to represent Massachusetts 
in the United States Senate ; but in consequence of ill- 
health, he was soon compelled to resign his seat. From 
that time he has kept himself before the pul^lic by his writ- 
ings and speeches. Foreseeing the political rupture of our 



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country, he endeavored, by the preparation and delivery 
throuo-hout the country of a magnificent oration upon Wash- 
ino"tou, to revive a little the consciousness of common ties 
and common interests. The Mt. Vernon Papers, written 
for popular reading, were prepared with the same patriotic 
end in view. The profits of these efforts, amounting to 
nearly seventy thousand dollars, were freely given to the 
fund for the purchase of the home of Washington. Their 
only effect was to procure for Mr. Everett universal respect 
and imperishable admiration. 

In the presidential election of 1860, his name appeared 
on the ticket of the so-called conservative Union party. 
It was Mr. Everett's good fortune to be defeated ; for by 
the noble stand which he took by the government of his 
country, as soon as it was violently assailed, he has gained 
for himself a place in the hearts and memories of his 
countrj-men, though but a private citizen, which he could 
never have secured in the highest office under one who has 
since joined his country's foes. 

The pillar upon which Mr. Everett's fame will chiefly 
rest is his orcUort/. Eminent as a preacher, a scholar, a 
^litician, a governor, a diplomat, a statesman, he will be 
remembered above kll as an orator. 

There is rarely a speaker whose words suffer more in 
being separated from the personal delivery of their author. 
It is one thing to read Mr. Everett's speeches ; it was 
another to hear them. That dignified and majestic pres- 
ence, that open and benevolent countenance, that mild and 
thoughtful eye, that silvery voice, trained and modulated 
with as fine an art as ever flute was played, those easy but 
expressive gestures, carefully studied, yet seemingly spon- 
taneous, — it is difficult to realize that from the halls and 



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platforms where they have been so often and so recently 
ftimiliar to ns, they are gone forever. If he did not employ 
the fierce and sinister delivery of Calhoun, if he could not 
rouse enthusiasm to the pitch of madness with the myste- 
rious magic of Clay, if he could not wield the naked thun- 
ders of Webster, if he was not fired with the nervous 
impetuosity of Choate, there was none to vie with him in 
insinuating persuasiveness and a captivatiug grace, which 
lacked neither warmth nor power. He could not crush like 
Webster, or wither like Choate, or excite like Clay; he 
was hot the man to loish to do it ; but often have his 
audiences followed him, breathless and entranced, over 
wave after wave of elaborate and swelling thought, to the 
very summits of eloquence ; and when he had a theme 
fitted to waken the peculiar patriotic fervor of his soul, — 
like the revival of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, 
the Life of Washington, or the maintenance of the Federal 
Government, — he spoke often from such a depth of feeling 
as to melt the hearts, and moisten the eyes, of all his 
hearers. 

If, apart from the charm of his delivery, we seek to as- 
certain from his writings wherein his great power lay, we 
are struck, first of all, with the splendor of his scholarship. 
His language and style are those of a master. The Greek 
professor seems to have formed his oratory in the schools, 
and upon the models, of Athens. Nothing escapes him 
which would offend the ears even of an Areopagite. He 
never descends to vulgar expressions ; he never soars on the 
wings of bombast ; he never deigns to court notoriety with 
eccentricities ; he never utters a careless word ; he never 
shows his consummate art. Studied elegance and elaborate 
finish crown every sentence. He draws from rich stores of 



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classical learning, illustrations and allusions with which to 
animate and adorn his language ; but instead of being, as in 
t'he writings of many, interwoven, as it were, with the mental 
product, w^th unskilful and pedantic hand, they all seem to 
have passed through the loom of his own intellect, and to 
have become an essential part of his own thought. If com- 
position may be compared to architecture, the style of Mr. 
Everett, chaste, proportioned, polished, was to that of Mr. 
Choate wild, luxurious, overloaded, — what a Grecian temple 
is to a cathedral in the florid Gothic ; while that of Mr. 
Webster was like some bold, severe, and rugged" natural 
rock. 

The scholarship of Mr. Everett appears in the substance 
even more than in the style of his writings. The produc- 
tions of his pen embrace a vast variety of themes, and reveal 
almost nnlimited treasures of learning. He never touched 
a subject but to illuminate it. Already in his twenty-fifth 
year he was one of the finest of living Greek scholars. As 
time passed on, one language after another, and one depart- 
ment of knowledge after another, opened for him its stores. 
At the time of his decease, he was, undoubtedly, the best 
read student of international jurisprudence that our country 
could boast. It was not in vain that the light burned which 
often at midnight, glimmering from the windows of his 
library, attracted the eye of the passenger. He had ran- 
sacked the treasuries of theology, law, diplomacy, oratory, 
and history. It was in this last department that he ranged 
without a rival. There was none like him to irradiate the 
obscurities, and solve the perplexities of a subject, by pour- 
ing upon it the light of precedents and former experience. 
And yet his learning had no savor of pedantry. There are 
learned men whose minds are teeming and overflowing with 



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knowledge, but who have no power to arrange or employ 
it ; they are great only in industry and in memory. Mr. 
Everett's w^as one of those great minds which have clear and 
discriminating perceptions, sound judgments, and th6 power 
of bringing ordej* out of chaos, and moulding matter into 
forms of life. That which he read w^as not stored away in 
a mental cabinet, to be forgotten when most needed, lost 
when most diligently sought, or dragged out and awkwardly 
welded on his work ; it was poured into the crucible of his 
mind, to issue interfused with a glowing stream of molten 
thought. 

A distinguishing characteristic of Mr. Everett's produc- 
tions, and one of the secrets of their power, was the good- 
ness which permeated them, and which beautifully irradiated 
his private life. 

His orations convey the same impression that was re- 
ceived from a perusal of his noble countenance, — an im- 
pression of calm benevolence and majestic purity. He was 
never fired with that personal ambition which has consumed 
the lives, and warped the (Conduct, and tainted the principles, 
and broken the hearts, of so many of our public men. In 
the midst of the fiercest temptations of political life, he 
never swerved from the strait and narrow path of incor- 
ruptibility and temperance. Tried b}^ such sore afilictions 
as few men have known, within a veil which we have no 
right. or wish to lift, he suffered no bitterness to be infused 
into his disposition, but bore his griefs with silent, manly 
dignity. In society he was ever genial, interested, benig- 
nant, though reserved. In private life he was such, that to 
know him best was to love him most. 

There have been other orators among us who have risen 
to eminence; but some of them have achieved a reputation 



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by indulging in stinging personalities ; others have dipped 
their pens in gall, and revelled in withering sarcasms ; oth- 
ers have catered to a misguided public taste or sentiment ; 
others have sacrificed their dignity, if not their principles, 
to a vulgar popularity ; others have soiled their productions 
with stains of passion, prejudice, illiberal feeling; others 
have marred the glory of their public career, by irregulari- 
ties of private life. But u'one of these was Everett. His 
Avords and acts, as wellin private a^s in public, were instinct 
with purity, gentleness, and goodness. He combined the 
strength of the lion with the gentleness of the lamb. 

His views and conduct were such as conld only have pro- 
ceeded from a union of greatness of mind, and greatness of 
heart. With an intense afiection for his country, and a 
keen sense of British injustice, he was yet able to represent 
his government at the Court of St. James, during a period 
of feverish excitement, with perfect dignity and moderation ; 
and throughout our more recent provocations, Mr. Everett, 
although he has not failed to appreciate the wrong of Eng- 
land's course, has never dropped a word calculated to in- 
flame popular passion. He was one who dared, in the 
strength of conscientious conviction, to breast a swelling tide 
of popular sentiment. He was one of the few who, with a 
stronu' conviction of the evils, and detestation of the abuses, 
of slavery, could yet refrain from comprehending all con- 
nected Avith it in one indiscriminate anathema. He Avas 
one of the few Avhose patriotism lifted them above subservi- 
ence to party, the associations of friendship, and the pride 
of opinion. He Avas one of the few Avho, with the heart of 
a true statesman, yearned over his misguided countrymen, 
and urged the vigorous prosecution of war against the re- 
bellious, and the generous treatment of the conquered, with 



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equal eloquence. His greatness was shown in the meekness 
with which he 'could acknowledge an error, — the magnan- 
imity with which he could forgive a fault. His compassion 
for the suffering Tennesseans and Georgians has been testi- 
fied in deathless strains of feeling and power ; yet this was 
but an exhibition of a compassion which was continually 
flowing out in more secret chauuels, which will never be 
fully known till the recording angel shall have opened his 
volumes. The public life of Mr. Everett could not have 
more fitly ended than with the speech which was his last ; 
nor, as he went up, a sinful man, to his Father's house, 
could anything have more recommended him to forgiveness, 
and the best robes, than the plea which rung from his dying 
lips, for mercy and generosity toward the repentant prodigals 
of Savannah. 

If there was one virtue which, more than any other, ap- 
l^eared in Mr. Everett's character, — one principle which, 
more than any other, governed his conduct, it was the love 
of his country. This love was manifested in his constant 
interest in all that afi'ected the libertv, intelligence, and 
morality of the people. The aim of most of his eftbrts, the 
thread upon which they are strung, is the promotion of the 
real good of the people. Schools, libraries, and public 
improvements never failed to secure his countenance. He 
never withheld his counsels or his services, when demanded 
even by the smallest interest of the community. He was a 
faithful friend and supporter of all religious institutions ; 
and one of the last acts of his life was a successful resist- 
ance of encroachments upon the sanctity of the Sabbath. 

But, undoubtedly, the greatest proof of Mr. Everett's pa- 
triotism, and that which has engraven his name in indeli- 
ble characters upon the hearts of his countrymen, is the 



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promptness and earnestness Avith which he flew t(j his 
conntry's support in the hour of her agony. The assistance 
which he brought to our government in the encouragement 
\vhich he oiFerecl to its defenders, the decision to which 
his example brouglit the wavering, the respect which its 
espousal by such a man secured for our cause aln-oad, can 
never b,e told. When others were unable to shake off the 
fetters of preconceived opinions, and party prejudices, and 
old associations ; when others consulted private ambition and 
interest, rather than their country's welfare; when others 
stood aloof, or even lent their helpful sympathies to the 
nation's enemies ; when others ofiered conditional assistance, 
and would help to save their country only in their own 
way ; he brought to her aid, without reserve, all his vast 
influence and matchless eloquence, and rose in her defence 
with a patriot's devotion and a giant's strength ; and when 
the others shall have fallen into deserved oblivion, the 
gratitude of his country shall trim anew the light immortal 
which burns before the name of Everett. 

The lesson of his life to us all, and especially to young 
men, is the worth and power of goodness. It is as a good 
man that he is presented to us for our imitation. His gifts, 
his opportunities, his acquirements will not be granted to 
any of us ; his goodness may be the inheritance of all. It is 
often felt, particularly by young men, that goodness and 
purity are allied to weakness; and that success in the 
competitions of business and politics requires a certain 
looseness of virtue and dissoluteness of conduct. The suc- 
cess and greatness of Mr. Everett, a success and greatness 
not achieved in spite of virtue, but resting and built upon 
integrity, purity, temperance, charity, as its foundation- 
stones, is an emphatic and irrefutable proof of the folly of 



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such notions. He has set before us a sublime example of 
simple goodness and patriotic devotion, "and by it, he, 
being dead, yet speaketh." 

Of that which pertains to his i^eligious life and feelings, 
they only have a right to speak, if any there are,' who were 
admitted into the sanctuary of his most sacred moments. 
We know that a man is not justified before God. by the 
purity of his life, but by the faith of the Son of God ; and 
we know that JMr. Everett was one of those to whom it was 
not given to see the full "truth as it is in Jesus." But we 
know, also, that such full perception is not essential to the 
love of Him who said, "If a man love Me, My Father will 
love him." If we may know men by their fruits, such love 
of man as filled Mr. Everett's heart and life, testifies of a 
'love of the man Christ Jesus, and inspires the confident 
hope that that name which is enrolled among those of our 
greatest men, and is imperishabl}^ written on the heart of 
our country, is recorded also in "the Lamb's Book of Life." 

It is idle and invidious to draw comparisons, and we 
would say nothing of the dead but that which is good ; and 
yet, as we pass in thought from one to another of the rest- 
ing-places of our great men, we can but remember of this 
one, that his vast powers were devoted rather to his coun- 
try's disruption than to her welfare ; of another, that he 
served his own ambition rather than his people ; of another, 
that a generally noble career was marred by some act which 
we could wish had been left undone ; of others, that their 
greatness was defaced by the private vices of the duellist, 
the debtor, the profane, the libertine, the gamester, or the 
drunkard ; it is but seldom that we can mourn for a great 
man with the feeling that there was hardly anything in 
him which we could wish difi'ereut : but there are two 



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such men sleeping in our country's soil, with respect to 
whom this feeling may be especially entertained ; two men 
in abilities and in character most like, — the one the mas- 
■ ter, the other the disciple; the one the model, the other 
the warmest eulogist and closest imitator; the one the 
father of his country, the other her purest son. There 
are two spots now where the traveller may stand and 
drop a tear of admiration, gratitude, and sorrow, over 
the remains of combined greatness and goodness ; the one 
is among the solitudes of Mt.- Vernon, — it is the tomb 
of Washington; the other is among the multitudes of Mt. 
Auburn, — it is the grave of Everett. 

There are some circumstances connected with his de- 
parture Avhich are exceedingly painful; and yet, on re- 
flection, we find in them exceeding propriety and beauty. 

We could wish that he had been allowed a little space 
for preparation for the solemnity of entrance into eternity, 
and for the testimony of his faith ; and yet we are ready 
to acquiesce in the arrangements of Providence when we 
remember, that it is not the last moment, but the life which 
affords at once the best preparation, and the best evidence 
of fitness, for the final departure. 

We could wish that he had fallen in the midst of friends ; 
that hands of love had ministered to his last necessities ; 
that Memory had been permitted to soothe him with her 
songs of duty done, and Religion to stand by him with 
uplifted finger; that a nation, hushed and sorrowing, had 
attended him to the verge of life ; and yet, when we re- 
member how alone he stood in his greatness, the last of 
his generation of statesmen, the mournful survivor of al- 
most all his family and domestic happiness, lonely in his 
intellect, his patriotism, his age, there was a fitness in his 



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expiring alone ; and it was beautifully and appropriately 
ordered, that he should come to the door of the sepulchre, 
where the Lord has lain, bearing the precious spices of a 
stainless life, "as it began to dawn toward the first day of 
the week." 

We could wish that he had lived to sec the end of the 
great rebellion, and the resurrection of his country, for 
which he had so ardently hoped and so earnestly labored, 
and to which he had so largely contributed ; and yet, the 
death of faith is more sublime than that of full fruition : 
not all the hill-tops of Canaan could offer so glorious and 
suitable a dying pillow to the deep-hearted old leader of 
Israel as the rocky summit of Pisgah ; it was fitting that 
he should be numbered with the noble company of those 
who, confidently "looking for a better country," have "died 
in faith, not having received the promise." 

We could wish that he had been spared to us yet many 
years, to guide us by his counsels, to enrich us with his ex- 
perience, to delight us with the music of his eloquence; 
we could mourn that his great powers, which as yet showed 
no traces of decay, should be so early extinguished ; and 
yet, when jve remember how sad it is to see a great mind 
breaking up, aild a noble intellect shattered and overthrown 
by age, it was well that his sun should go down while it 
was yet day. It was a grand termination for so nol)le a 
life. It was the end for which the gifted buccaneer so ear- 
nestly prayed, — the end which, perhaps, every man of 
powerful intellect covets for himself, — 

"The end of tropic sun ; 
No pale gradations quench his ray ; 
No twilight dews his wrath allay ; 
With disc like battle-target red, 
He rushes to his burning bed, 
Dyes the wide wave^with puryile light, 
Then — sinks at once, — and all is night." 



D F. A T H IN THE 


PAT-ACE. 


A 




^ t X m n 


IN MEMOEY OF 




EDWARD EVERETT. 


BY 




REV. JOHN E. TODD, 


PASTOR f)F THE CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY, 


BOSTON. 




JANXJ.A.RY 33, 


« 

1865. 


BOSTON: 




DAKIN AND METCALP, 


PRINTERS. 


1865. 





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